A Metro police car blocks traffic on Tropicana Avenue after an auto-pedestrian accident Monday, March 26, 2012. A vehicle traveling westbound on Tropicana, near Topaz, struck a pedestrian as he ran across the road, police say. The pedestrian, who was jaywalking when hit, was hospitalized
Monday, March 26, 2012 | 9:03 p.m.
Juvenile injured in crash
Pedestrian hit
A woman and a teenage boy have been hospitalized tonight after being struck in two separate collisions, Metro Police said.
The female pedestrian was hit by a gray Honda around 7:35 p.m. in a crash near Decatur Boulevard and Desert Inn Road.
She was taken in non-critical condition to University Medical Center to treat a head injury and a broken leg, police said.
The collision involving a 15- to 17-year-old male pedestrian happened around 7:45 p.m. near the intersection of Tropicana and Eastern avenues.
A tan Mercedes hit the teen — who was reportedly running across the street outside of a crosswalk — at Tropicana Avenue and Topaz Street, and the boy sustained a brain injury, police said. He was taken to Sunrise Hospital Pediatrics in critical condition.
No further details were immediately available. Police are at the scenes investigating.
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